15 Ways To Doctor Cream Cheese

I love appetizers and simple things to serve with crackers and so I thought I would come up with at least 15 ways to doctor up cream cheese. You can easily use a food processor to mix room temperature cream cheese up with any of the below ingredients.

You can serve these spreads on butter crackers, or toast made from pumpernickel bread, rye bread, or whole grain wheat bread. Sometimes I will cut each piece of toast up into four pieces and serve my spread on the little pieces of toast. People really seem to love it served this way.

1. Mix one half cup of sun dried tomatoes and one tablespoon of fresh chopped basil with eight ounces of cream cheese and serve the dried tomato spread on crackers or pumpernickel or rye bread. You can try spreading your bread with garlic butter and toast it under your broiler. The dried tomato spread will be delicious on the toast.

2. You can make a delicious pepper spread by adding one half cup of high quality pepper jelly to eight ounces of cream cheese in the food processor and mix everything up together well. This pepper spread is especially tasty on toasted multi grain wheat bread.

3. You can make one of the best beef spreads you will ever taste by adding a small jar of dried beef slices to eight ounces of cream cheese and mix it up together very well until all the beef is very well chopped up and mixed up well with the cream cheese. This spread is really good on almost any type of butter crackers and I sometimes add a teaspoon of horseradish to the mixture when I am mixing it up.

4. Chop up one half cup of radishes and add them and one teaspoon of fresh black pepper to eight ounces of cream cheese. This is one of my favorites and I serve it on small squares of toasted pumpernickel bread and people just love it.

5. Mix one fourth cup of store bought pesto sauce along with a few pine nuts into eight ounces of cream cheese. This makes a wonderful and flavorful spread.

6. Mix one fourth cup of pitted olives into eight ounces of cream cheese and garnish this spread with a few fresh thyme leaves.

7. Mix a small jar of marinated artichokes into eight ounces of cream cheese and mix well. Add a half teaspoon of ground sea salt as you are mixing it up. This is especially good on pumpernickel or rye bread that you either toast or don't toast. If you toast it first spread it with garlic butter and lightly sprinkle the bread with ground cayenne pepper before you toast your bread.

8. Here's another of my favorites. Drain a can of tiny baby shrimp and add them to eight ounces of cream cheese. Also add a teaspoon of ground nutmeg and one tablespoon of sweet finely minced red onion. This spread is especially good served on bagel chips or toast made from English muffins that you have toasted and cut into four pieces. Spread your English muffins with garlic butter before you toast them.

9. Mix a 4 ounce jar of green chilies and their juices into eight ounces of cream cheese. Add a level teaspoon of ground cumin to the mixture.

10. Mix four ounces of smoked salmon and a teaspoon of fresh lemon juice into eight ounces of cream cheese. You can really use any smoked fish for this. You may or may not want to add a level teaspoon of red pepper flakes or a half teaspoon of ground cayenne pepper to this mixture.

11. Mix a eight ounce can of crab meat into eight ounces of cream cheese along with salt and pepper to taste and a teaspoon of fresh squeezed lemon juice to this mixture.

12. Mix one small can of deviled ham and one teaspoon of Dijon mustard into eight ounces of cream cheese.

13. Mix one half cup of crumbled blue cheese, a tablespoon of pear preserves and a tablespoon of roasted almond slices to eight ounces of cream cheese. This spread is especially good on any type of butter crackers.

14. Mix one fourth cup of honey roasted almonds and a level teaspoon of ground cayenne pepper into eight ounces of cream cheese.

15. Mix one half cup of boiled diced ham and a teaspoon of honey into eight ounces of cream cheese. Be sure that you run the food processor long enough so that all the boiled ham gets well mixed up into the cream cheese.

There are fifteen ways to doctor cream cheese but there are many other ways you can doctor cream cheese. I like to serve the dried beef spread in a small round hallowed out loaf of bread that I have buttered and toasted under the broiler before I add my dried beef spread to the bread bowl. You will want to allow your bread bowl to cool to room temperature before you add the dried beef spread to it.

And like I said I bet you can come up with your own ways to doctor up cream cheese and if you do please post your ideals below and let us all know your ideal. Thanks for taking the time to read my Hub Page on, " 15 Ways To Doctor Cream Cheese ".